# 島 — Island

Frequency rank 269 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 勝 (Win), less common than 由 (Reason).

- On’yomi: とう
- Kun’yomi: しま
- Radical: 山 Mountain (Kangxi 46)
- Frequency path: Level III of XX
- School grade: 3
- Strokes: 10

The bird with the butcher's ear still hooked in its beak drops onto the tallest of the three peaks, four splayed toes scratching the bare rock.

In words:

- 島 しま — island
- 列島 れっとう — chain of islands
- 半島 はんとう — peninsula

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